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Depuis plus d'une décennie, la tendance dominante du débat architectural valorise dans les œuvres nouvelles que ce qu'elles peuvent " exprimer " d'exceptionnel et de génie personnel. En invitant à ranimer le mot modestie au regard de l'architecture, les auteurs n'entendent pas en appeler à la retenue des élans ni à la fondation morale d'un " mouvement modeste " rédempteur des architectes inaperçus. Ils veulent explorer ce paradoxe épineux qu'induit ce rapprochement qui fait immédiatement réagir les architectes avec passion, véhémence, outrance parfois. Car, derrière cette réflexion se tient quelque chose qui manque gravement au débat actuel, quelque chose qui regarde le métier plus que la signature, qui pose la question de l'attitude, du " savoir se situer " de l'architecte. C'est moins un pavé qu'un appeau qui est ainsi lancé dans la mare, lequel, s'il n'est mis trop vite en pièces, attirera sûrement quelques oiseaux...

Architecture --- Philosophy --- Architecture - Philosophy - Congresses

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Community life --- Architecture and society --- Architecture -- Philosophy

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"A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949-1987 provides a comprehensive survey of architectural projects exhibiting intelligence since the Late First Century right up to the present day. Tracing the social, scientific and technological developments, this book analyses case studies from both conceived and executed architectural projects by Architects and Cyberneticians from the United States, United Kingdom, Europe and Japan from 1949-87. From the Late First Century through to the Seventeenth Century, the scientific endeavors of the Hero of Alexandria, Ramon Llull, Paracelsus, Rene´ Descartes, Jacques de Vaucanson, Pierre Jacquet-Droz, and Charles Babbage have been presented in which they attempted to review, analyse and conclude the notion of artificial intelligence. Coming to the Twenty-First Century and witnessing a period, particularly from 1949-87, where nothing had been constant, Architects and Cyberneticians whose architectural projects attempted to simulate intelligence include Cedric Price, Richard Saul Wurman, Nicholas Negroponte, Kenzo Tange, Arata Isozaki, Charles Eames, Ezra D. Ehrenkrantz, Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano, and Gordon Pask respectively. This book asks: How have Polymaths, Architects and Cyberneticians simulated artificial intelligence in their scientific/architectural projects? Is it possible to define intelligence purely based on the history of architecture? Or, on a more extensive level, is it possible to view artificial intelligence originating from the history of architecture instead of computational paradigm? The transdisciplinarity of the book makes it of interest to researchers and students of technologically advanced architecture's history, theory, and criticism, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information and communications, urban and sustainable design, ergonomics, computer applications, and digital design and fabrication"-- Provided by publisher.

ARCHITECTURE / Design & Drafting. --- Architecture Philosophy. --- Information theory in aesthetics.

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Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) taught architectural theory at Kassel University and, in the 1980s, coined the term "Promenadology"or the science of Strollology and developed this into a complex and far-sighted planning and design discipline. Given that "the landscape" as an idea only exists in our heads, Burckhardt's writings (and drawings) are not so much concerned with beautiful vistas, but focus instead on the multi-faceted interaction a simple walk-taker has with his environment. To those who observe the environment with their eyes wide open, interesting questions will arise again and again; for example, why "city" and "country" can no longer be separated so easily in the face of progressive urbanization. Or why we consider a viaduct to be beautiful, but a nuclear power station an intrusion. And also, why gardens are works of art and should therefore be appraised as such. This book contains 28 texts by the design and planning critic, for the first time in English, with the focus on landscapes, gardens as an art form and the science of strollology.

Environment (Aesthetics) --- Gardens --- Landscape architecture --- Urbanization --- Philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Gardens - Philosophy --- Landscape architecture - Philosophy

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Non-Referential Architecture is nothing less than a manifesto for a new architecture. It brings together two leading thinkers, architect Valerio Olgiati and theorist Markus Breitschmid, who have grappled with this problem since their first encounter in 2005. In a world that itself increasingly rejects ideologies of any kind, Olgiati and Breitschmid offer Non-Referential Architecture as a radical, new approach free from rigid ideologies. Non-referential buildings, they argue, are entities that are themselves meaningful outside a vocabulary of fixed symbols and images, and their historical connotations. For more than a decade, Olgiati and Breitschmid's thinking has placed them at the forefront of architectural theory. Indispensable for understanding what the future might hold for architecture, Non-Referential Architecture will become a new classic.

Architecture --- Architecture postmoderne --- Philosophie --- Architecture, Postmodern --- Philosophy --- Architecture - Philosophy --- Ecrit d'architecte